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Mail to: Soddy Daisy Knife Collectors NEWSLETTER Association P.O. Box 1224 A Message from the President Soddy Daisy, TN 37379 Hello, My Fellow Knife Collectors....... Please send Questions, July 2012 And Happy (4 th of July) Independence Day…... I know many will be Comments and traveling this week so be careful out there on the road and please take Suggestions for the care of yourselves and your pets in the 100+Degree Heat…. Newsletter to: Ronald Franklin We don’t have any business at this point, Kenny is trying to contact (423) 400-4812 President: someone for the museum curator to schedule us a trip. So, if anyone has [email protected] Ronald Franklin any info about the new curator, please contact Kenny Powell. (423) 400-4812 [email protected] We had a large number to turn out for the last meeting and several visitors, please remember to make them feel welcome at our club meeting and invite more people to come and visit us. It’s been mentioned that we have another knife auction at the club meeting. I would suggest either August 2 nd which is the day before the Vice President: th www.sdkca.com Crossville Show or September 6 . Dewayne Buckner (423) 332-5671 Also, If you have not picked up your club knife please do so by this Upcoming Gun & Knife Shows meeting. Need someone to give me an updated list of Local Gun & Knife Shows each Month for our Newsletter – by email. Please visit our web site “EVENTS” for a current up to day Google Calendar. www.sdkca.com http://www.gunshows-usa.com/tennesee.shtml Second Annual Cumberland County "Gun & Knife Show" Web Master: 08/03/12 - 08/05/12 Kenny Powell Remember …..Kenny also has set up a page on our web site for (423) 775-4183 buy/sell/trade for members; if you have something that you want listed Camp Jordan Sept 1-2 [email protected] please email Kenny with as much info as possible. Sept 2 9-30, 2012– Shriners Chattanooga We have also added a tracking map to the bottom of the page, so we can tell where people are from checking out our web site Please come back and invite someone to the meeting and don’t forget to Secretary: Frank Parham buy a chance on this month's raffle, tickets are $1/each. (423) 208-8988 [email protected] We also encourage you to bring a knife or two for show and tell or trade and sell as well.....!!!! SDKCA Monthly Meeting Thanks and I look forward to seeing you there. We will meet July 5th at the Soddy Daisy Community Center . The meeting will begin at 6:00 PM; the doors are open and trading starts at 5:30. To get to the Community Center go north on Dayton Pike until you come to Ronald Soddy Lake, turn left on Durham Street, then right on Depot Street and you will see the Community Center. Treasurer: Bring some knives and plan to take a new (different) one home with you. Jim Morgan 423-843-1635 [email protected] The Best Place to Buy, Sell or Trade a knife is at the Soddy Daisy Knife Club. For those of you who know, Gil Hibben is one of the more famous knife makers today here is a little info about him: Hibben was born in Wyoming in 1935. Unable to afford a Bowie knife at age 15, Hibben decided to make his own out of scrap metal and files. He did not make another knife until his discharge from the US Navy in 1956 when he took a job in Seattle, Washington as a machinist for Boeing Aircraft and started making knives in his spare time after he sold another handmade Bowie knife to a friend for $45 SDKCA Meeting Minutes June 7, 2012 In 1964, Hibben relocated to Sandy, Utah to become a full-time knifemaker. His blades were primarily 440C stainless steel and Hibben Treasurer's Reports was the first knife maker to use that steel in his knives. While in Sandy, Hibben partnered with another knifemaker named Stuart Benedict and these knives were sold under the name "Ben-Hibben". The knives from this time period were fixed-blade Bowie knives, July 2012 1- Ronald opened the meeting with the pledge to the flag. hunting knives, fishing knives and some early fighting knives. 2- Everyone is invited to check out the clubs face book Beginning Balance**** $3,058.99 page. You must be a face book member to gain access. In 1965, Hibben left Sandy for Manti, Utah to open a larger facility where he operated as "Hibben Knives". One of his knives was 3-The club has a great web site www.sdkca.com . There Income $174.00 written about and featured on the cover of Guns & Ammo in an article titled The Versatile Gil Hibben , expanding his reputation beyond Knife Raffle $69.00 are very interesting articles on knife tang stamp markings, that of a local knifemaker. This recognition lead him to the attention of Browning firearms, who had Hibben design the company's first a for sale page where you can buy or sell a knife and other line of knives in 1968 consisting of 3 fixed blade knives and a folding hunting knife. That same year, Hibben sang Tenor for the Dues $10.00 good information on our club. Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Club Knives $95.00 4-T.J. and Kenny have done a great job for the past five years serving a club officers. Many thanks. 5- We had several visitors, please come back. A lifelong martial artist with black belt rankings in Aikido, Judo, and American Kenpo, Hibben designed and built a knife called the 6-Earl and Lynn are doing the refreshments for our Kenpo Knife as his Black Belt Thesis under Ed Parker in 1968; his thesis and knife design led to Long Form VIII ("Double Dagger Expenses $52.99 meetings. Thanks guys. Form") which uses two knives in mock combat. FedEx, newsletters $52.99 7-Ronald requested you send some newsletter articles by email. In 1970, Hibben moved his shop again. After a brief period in Springdale, Arkansas, he relocated to Alaska for five years working as a 8-Remember we will have a club drawing at the end of knifemaker and a hunting and fishing guide. In 1975 he moved his shop again to Silver Dollar City, Missouri and four years later to [9] the year for a Fighting Rooster Knife. Eligibility for the Louisville, Kentucky. drawing is based upon attendance, so come as often as possible. April Knife Raffle While in Louisville, Hibben was contacted by Sylvester Stallone to make a modern version of a Bowie knife for the film Rambo III . 9-Tonya’s show in Crossville is August 3,4,5. If you want After the release of the movie, Hibben began a long-term partnership with United Cutlery of Taiwan who released factory versions of to attend it would be a good idea to reserve a table now. the "Rambo III Knife" and a subsequent annual factory "Art Knife" each based on one of Hibben's custom designs every year Tickets are $1/each. 10- Attendance was 31. afterward. United has made versions of Hibben's Kenpo Knife, Alaskan Guide Knife, and throwing knives. Hibben previously partnered with knifemaker Dr. Rob Charlton of Damascus-USA to produce smaller Damascus steel versions of the Rambo Bowie. In **Balance from 1991, Hibben relocated to the Louisville suburb of La Grange, Kentucky. *Ending Balance $3,180.00 *Treasurers report is the previous months report.. Ending bank account balance is actually the Starting balance for current month. The popularity of Hibben's mass produced fantasy designs led to Hibben's knives being used in other films such as Spawn , Mortal The Blade Show in Atlanta Kombat , The Perfect Weapon , Natural Born Killers , Under Siege , Babylon 5 and the Star Trek franchise. Hibben's "Jackal" knife Parker’s Knife Show in Sevierville appears on the poster for Star Trek Nemesis . Hibben made another "Rambo" knife for Stallone's Rambo and the Bowie knife and Arkansas toothpick used in the film, The Expendables . Paramount Pictures has given Hibben the title Official Klingon Armorer for all the weapons he has made for the Franchise's villains. The Blade Show in Atlanta is a large and exciting show and was held June 8,9,10 this year. It attracts the factory knife makers like CASE, PUMA, Benchmade, Buck and others. The custom knife makers make up another section of the exhibitors as well as knife making suppliers such as Jantz, Texas Knife Making Supply, Hawkins KMS and many others. Another group of exhibitors are the Hibben's Fantasy Knives were mass produced by United Cutlery with at least one annual edition from 1994 until 2005. The first of accessory suppliers such as specialty metals, giraffe bone supply, tasers and leather products. Companies that customize knives these was a silver wire wrapped handle version of the V-42 Stiletto. like Painted Pony Design and Yellowhorse also exhibit. This show attracts a few thousand propel each year. For me this is a great show that I enjoy and one day is not enough. Hibben has been President of the Knifemakers' Guild since 2006 and is a member of the Blade Magazine Cutlery Hall of Fame. Parker’s show in Sevierville is held two times each year, June 14,15,16 were this years dates. This is a different show from the Here is some examples of his Bowie type knives…… blade show.